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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-03-03
NEWS IN BRIEF,

Judge Albion w. Tourgee, is seriously
i'll with pneumonia at Nlaysville, N. Y. 4
Noah Hall, Of Muncie, Ind, was run
over by q train aud killed while gazing at
q gas well. 4sif.i ma ssf
Baobe & Bray, lumber dealers at Mime
apolis, have assigned. Liabilities from
100000 TO S150,000. .e1g,
DsultoR Brothers livery stable, at Mays.
vile, KY, was burned and thirty hnrs os
destroyed. Loss, $40, i..s1 ss1 Is
It Is reported that Californian, who
has band Of sheep in Lake County, Ore
gon, lost ono thousand head last week.
John Money, Of New Albany, Ind,
killed himself because his sick wife made
will leaving her property to her parents.
David smallzly, Lagro, Ind, was killed
on trestle BY passenger train on the
Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan Rail.
road. s'as y 52s}Ga5 4 G7<9} Z, s'i &,
AN epidemic Of measles is raging in the
Ridge Avenue Orphans Home, Allegheny
City. Fifty children are Ill with tho
disease. H.
Senator Hugh Nelson has been appoint.
ed Governor Of British Columbia to sue.
coed Governor Cornwall, whose term has
evpired. &,
Henry kerner, q farmer near Mt. Yer.
non, Ind, didn't know it was loaded,
blew into tho muzzle Of hi1 shotgun and
waa killed. ,.55s55 / & .a3.. 5 N, N Is e.
|. Patrick Holland bombarded house OF
ill-repute ut Wabaah, Iui., and was fired
upon and killed Mrs, Emma Weis, a sister
OF the proprfetrees. 53 4tiR,ssa Ej,-*5
Richard Braunschyeig and Adolph
schenck, Now York Auarchiats, having
aesved nine months sentence, have been
released from Dlackwe!l's Island. ~
The Interstate Land Company has pur-
chased 70,000,000 acres OF land in Texas,
New Mexico and Colorado. This Is the
largest private land purchase ever made in
tho United States. r;5iii{ g.S,ltt Z Z
It is now suspected that Laurence Krug,
Chicago, who il in prison for the murder
Of three wives and a step.dsughter, also
poisoned Gnnds schoephner, daughter 'oi
his first wife's sister. i5f1'.1 7 "
Mrs. Sarah Jane Robinson, Of Boston,
has been indicted for causing the deaths Of
Oliver Sleeper, Moses Robinson, Prince
Arthur Freeman and Thomas Arthur
, Freeman. She was already indicted for
poisoning two others.
q. n . r ~ . O. ~ Ii
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Mra. Juls' Rembert was also on board
but was saved from drowning. She is at
Damapells and is in o prccarous condi.
tion. The boat WAC not Insured and was
valued u. $4,000. The cotton WAS in.
sured for $23, 600. -" -
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The New Jersey Legislature has solved
the deadlock in that State by electing a
Democrat. Our advicea do not state
WHISTLER the kickers came In, or not. Ts
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-03-03
TOLEDO, Ohio, has an oil boom. Other
communities have had them but have not
sntFered materially in the end. "a

TIE present United States House Of
Representatives has failed In everything
except drawing its per diem.
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IT paya to buy Carpeta at as
: .lls sf1s{4 4tSfcI I.sf1 STONE & TUoAAs'
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absolutely pure, exquiaitely perfumed,
popularity unprecedented. The bea. for
delicate ckias. +t5ENEF wkru
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-03-03
Ghe G1telIiiget1ter:::
,.re, So.. s5 md ~ Fourteenth Street.
Tax weather yesterday was springy
.,.,ber II was not the weather Of Spring,
Rooms for Presidential candidates arc
appearing III the newspapers. Now Is the
,ime 10 subscrbe. a' '66ai

A WESTERN paper suspenas by hanging
c,,uc on tho door. In this region 1t Is
vsneraly Il sherilf's notice.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-03-03

An epidemic Of measles is raging in the
Ridge Avenue Orphans Home, Allegheny
City. Fifty children are i'll with tho
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-03-03

soaE Of the best physicinns think Pal.
mera n "skin.seccsss" the best remedy for
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-03-03

Mrs. Sarah Jane Robinson, Of Boston.
has been indicted for causing the deaths Of
Oliver Sleeper, Moses Robinson, Prince
Arthur Freeman and Thomas Arthur
Freeman. She was already indicted for
poisoning two others. i.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-07-21
Danger of Keeping Bad Company.

The crows, one spring, began to pull
up a farmers young corn, which be
determined to prevent. He loaded his
gun, prepared to give them a warm
reception. The farmer had q sociable
parrot, who, discovering the crows pull
ing up the corn, flew over and Joined
them. The farmer detected the Crows
but did not see the parrot, he fired
among them, and fastened to see what
execution he had done. There lay three
dead crows and his pet parrot with
ruffled feathers and broken leg. When
the bird was taken home the children
asked:
"What did it, papa? Who hurt oul
pretty Poll?"
"Bad company! Bad company p
answered the parrot in solemn voice.
cay! that it was" said the farmer
"Poll was with those wicked crows when
I fred, and received a shot intended fol
them. Remember the parrots fatt
children. Beware of bad company"
With these words the farmer turnee
round, and with the aid of his wife
bandaged the broken leg, and in fen
weeks the parrot was as lively as ever
But it never forgot its adventure in the
corn6eld and if ever the farmers chill
dreu engaged in play with quarre:somt
c,mpaions, it Invariably dispersed then
with the cry, "Bad company! Bae
company !"
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"A Special from Atchisou, Kansas,
says: "Since Wednesday noon about
fifty acres of land in East Atchison, Mo-,
have been washed away by the river. A
school house which a month ago stood a
quarter of mile from the river bank was
moved east, and the ground on which it
stood is now in the river. The bank at
that point is perpendicular and thirty
feet high. The river has been rising
steadily for forty eight hours, and the
high winds of Wednesday drove the cur.
rent against the bank with great violence,
washing out bed of quicksaud, which
lies below the stratum of clay, and thus
undermining section after section of earth
as large as block of buildings, which
broke loose and was swallowed up by
the mighty current. All the residents Of
that portion Of the town have been forced
to hastily remove their houses or abandon
them to the mercy of the river"
= Sam Joues says: "Next to pret
ty woman, I love fast horse" w
don't. When we are next to a pretty
woman we want slow horse-one of th'
kind you have to build fire under t.
start him.
of the hundred thousand inhabi
tants of Cilicia, fertile plain in ASH
Minor, eighty thousand are destitute
The harvest time has just passed, bu
| not single sheaf of grain.was cut.
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Love and charity are increasing, espe'
cially is this so in these United States,
the nation that is to lead all nations.
Andrew Carnegie is wonderful man.
His steel works now employ as many
men as Krupp's and turn out more pro.
ducts and are established on the co.
operative system. Carnegie says the
United States are now rich enough to
buy out Great Britain and Ireland and
pay their national debt and then have
money enough left to buy Denmark and
Norway and Switzerland and Greece and
that we are getting richer at the rate of
one and half billions every year, and
yet we have only sixty millions Of people
while England has 100 millions in India
alone and sixty millions at home and
millions more scattered around. He
says that there are only 400 thousand
square miles of coal in the world, apd
three fourth of all these are in the
United States. 1t is amazing to read his
statistics. Great and terrible wars are
impending on the other side, but this
nation is TO hold the fort of Christianity
and progress, and prepare the way for
the millennium. -
So mote it bo. I would like to live to
see that millennium. Iwould like to see
the time when there were no courthouses,
nor jails, nor chaingaugs, nor dog.
pounds, nor locks on doors, no police,
nor sherifs, no soldiers of the cross.
Mavbe T will. BILL ARP.
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What Watterson Says.

Henry Watterson, of Kentucky, is in
New York. Speaking of the political
outlook, Mr.. Watterson expressed the
belief that the democrats would be vic.
torious in the next presidential contest.
"The battle flag incident and President
Cleveland's letter of declination to the
mayor of St. Louis, coming as they do
now year before the presidential con-
ventiop, is an instance of the luck of the
man. If the flag episode had happened
six weeks before the election in 1888, the
bloody shirters might have used it to
defeat Mr.. Cleveland" Mr.. Watterson
predicted that the next national demo.
cratic convention would renominate Mr..
Cleveland by acclamation, and that he
would be reelected. With regard to
Gov. Hill's chances, Mr.. Watterson
said, thatgentleman had not been thought
of In the South, and declared that if Hill
went to the convention with solid New
York delegation, Cleveland would receive
the votes of the delegates of every other
State and be renominated. In conclu-
sion, Mr.. Watterson said: ga tariff
reform bill will be introduced by Mr.
Carlisle, and other tariff reform democrats
called the administration tariff reform
bill at the next session. The president
will favor it, and it is expected to 60
through. If Mr.. Randall opposes it, he
will have to step aside and cease to have
any active participation with the party"
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A Good Story.

A Methodist minister cells us this
story: "Rev. William Barnes was an
Irishman, noted equally for his power
and his eccentricities. He wore q shirt
collar of stupendous size and a curly wig
The latter article of decoration was the
subject of some unfriendly criticism, and
this coming to his ears, he prefaced his
Sunday sermon with the following
remarks 'Braithren, understand
there's some of ye that don't like il
because wear wig. Now, I've made
up my mind to wear it or not, jist as the
congregation says. Here l am-look at
me. This is Billy Barnes with the wig
And this-(takiug the wig from the balo
pate) is Billy Barnes without the wig
Which way will ye have him?" In the
roars of laughter ind vociferous respon
ses, Brother Barnes with the wig!' tha
ensued, the wig.critics were utterly dis
com6ted"
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A Few Words From the Horse.

The Tunbridge Well Society for the
prevention of Cruelty to Animals, pub
fishes for circulation q slip from which
we make an extract. If they could only
speak for themselves, would not the horse
and donkey say:
"Don't beat our sides 20 hard and so
often, and we shall be stronger and bet
ter servants to you. You know how op'
preston only makes you set up your
back, but you will do anything for kind
master.
"Don't ride and drive US about till we
are ready to drop, and our wind is almost
broken, and We are reekiug with heat
and rough usage.
"Pray let us have little more water
when we stand weary and thirsty, with
our poor dry tongues unable to ask. for il.
You have felt the suffering Of thirst.
"And, for PHYS sake," the horses
would say, "loosen this torturipg rein
we toss or shake our heads or We try to
keep them still, and nothing gives us q
moments ease. You, master. would
suffer severely if your head were held in
such position, and we could do more
work and much better without it.
"Please remember that we can always
hear your voice, and shall understand
what you want US to do 80 much more
quickly if you speak to us quietly, than
if you roar at us, and drag our tender
worn mouths about. We get so puzzled
and frightened when you are in a rage
with us, that we only founder and plunge,
and make you more and more angry.
"Our last entreaty is, that, when we
get old and past our work, you will not
let our poor wasted bodies stagger along
under some load, when our lives have
been spent in your service, but that you
will reward us by having us Immediately
put out of our pain"
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disunion, and declares he did not desire
to be president of the Confederacy, but
took prompt and, as he thought, ade'
quate means to prevent it." After his
election and Inauguration at Montgomery
all his efforts were directed toward
securing for the seeding States peace.
full separation, though he never thought
of going back into the Union to escape a
last resort to the arbitrament of arms.
Mr.. Davis discusses his experience as
secretary of war in Mr.. Pierce's cabinet
and as United States senator from Mis-.
sissippi, his career as president of the
Southern Confederacy, and is eloquent in
his praise of General Albert Sidney
Johnston, Lee, Jackson and A. P. Hill.
He says A. S. Johnston had no peer on
either side during the war, if he ever had
in American history, and his loss to the
Confederacy was irreparable.
Speaking of the seven days battles
around Richmond, Mr.. Davis says Gen.
eral Lee conceived and executed the des.
perate plan to turn the flank and rear Of
McClellan's army, and adds that the fail
lure to annihilate the federal army was
due chiefly to the fact that General Lee
had no maps of the country below Rich.
mond, and that his army moved in igno'
rance of the country and with guides who
for the most part proved themselves
utterly inefficient.
he declares that Mcclellan and Meade
were the two best Federal generals, and
if the former had been permitted to carry
out his campaign against Richmond as
he had planned it and received the hearty
support of the Federal war department.,
it would have resulted disastrously to
the Confederacy.
Mr.. Davis and his family are warm in
their praise of the late John w. Garrett,
and confirmed Mr.. Garrett's statement,
made before his death, of how he secured
Mr.. Davis release from imprisonment at
Fortress Monroe.
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A Protecting Providence.

It will not be difficult to mention cases
in which eminent individuals have been
preserved from danger and death by the
manifest hand of Providence.
John Knox, the Scocth Reformer, had
many enemies, who sought to compass
his destruction. He was in the habit of
sitting in a particular chair in his own
house, with his back to the window.
One evening, however, when assembling
his family, he would neither occupy his
accustomed seat, nor allow any one else
to do 80. That very evening bullet
was sent through the window with q
design to kill him. 1t grazed the chair
which he usually occupied and made a
hole in the candlestick.
Itis related of Augustine that he was
going on one occasion to preach at dis
tapt town, and took guide to direct him
on his way. By some means the guide
mistook his way, and got into by-path.
It was afterwards discovered that party
of miscreants had designed to waylay
and murder him and that his life was
saved through the guides intake.
Charles of Bala was once saved from
death by what some would call a foolish
mistake. On one of his journeys to
Liverpool his saddle bag was put into
the wrong boat. He had taken bis seat
when he had discovered it, and had to
change at the last minute. At frst.he
was vexed and disappointed, but he
afterwards learned that the boat in
which he intended to go in was lost, and
all its passengers drowned.
Howard, the philanthropist, was once
preserved from death by what some
would call mere chance, but which was
no other than special Providence. He
always set a high value on Sabbath
privileges, and was exact and careful in
his attendance on the means of theg grace.
That he might neither increase the labor
of his servants, nor prevent their atten.
dance on public worship, he was accus.
toned to walk to the chapel at Bedford,
where he attended. One day man
whom he had reproved for his idle and
dissolute habits, resolved to waylay and
murder him. That morning, however,
for some reason or other, be resolved to
go on horseback, and by different road.
Thus his valuable and precious life was
saved.
The Rev. John Newton was in the
habit of regarding the hand of God in
everything, however trivial it might
appear to others. "The way of man is
not in himself" be would say. II do
not know what belongs to single step.
When go to St. Mary Woolnoth, it
seems the same whether I 60 down 10th.
berry, or go through the old.Jewry; but
the going through one street and not
another may produce an effect of lasting
consequence. A man cut down my ham.
mock in sport, but had he cut it down
half an hour later I had not been here,
as the exchange of the crew was then
making. A man made smoke on the
seashore at the time ship was passing,
which vas thereby brought to, and after
wards brought me to England"
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At last the Chinese a

- At last the Chinese are undertaking
the construction of railways. But it
does not appear that foreign syndicates
are to profit By the changed attitude of
the Government. In May last there was
issued decree sanctioning the building
of railroads north of the Pei.Ho River
in the province which contains the great
city of Pekin. A company composed of
Chinese officials was formed and native
capitalists were urged to take stock.
These capitalists, however, we're unwill.
ing to invest. Thereupon the viceroy of
the province issued proclamation, in
which the advantages to be derived from
railway communication were set forth,
and the rich were advised that by delay
they might close their opportunity"
Investors still declined to support the
work, and it is reported that French
bankers have loaned the Government
$4,5OO,OOO 10 be used in building the
road, which is to extend from the mouth
of the Pei Ho to the interior by way of
Ten Tsin. The leading minds of China
have not lost sight of the railway opera.
tions of other nations in Asia. They see
the Transcaspian Road approaching the
Middle Kingdom, through the heart of
the continent, and know that Russia has
determined to build a road through
Siberia to the Pacific. On the sout It
the construction of roads through ] IA
and Burmah to the Chinese boundary is
only question of time. They are con.
vinced that the empire must have sys.
tenn of railways, but they are hampered
by the conservatism of the people.
Eventually that conservatism will be
overcome.
In repairing the Presbyterian
church in Hoopeston, Ill.,, the steeple,
which had long been home for
English sparrows, was cleaned out. The
straw that the birds had carried into the
steeple or nests amounted to nearly
enough to fill wagon box.
= Newcastle, Pa, has hen Of extra.
ordinary egg laying ability. One day
recently she layed two good-size eggs ;
the day following she repeated the oper.
alton; on the third day she rested and
laid no eggs, but on the fourth day she
! made up by laying three eggs.
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The thermometer Was Oh.

There is suburb of Montgomery cali.
ed "vesuvius," and the population. as
may be supposed, is all colored. Three
or four of US were driving out around the
fair grounds when We came upon two col
ored men who were wrangling. One had
an open razor in his hand, and the other
club, and they seemed ready to fight
We drove around for half an hour and
then returned to the same gate. They
were still there and still wrangling. w
took another direction, drove two OK
three miles, and again came back to that
point. There waslchange in the .ituation.
They still stood in the middle of the road
facing each other, and their high-pi.ched
voices were still hurling auathemas at
each others heads.
"Sayw called the Colonel as we drove
up, els there going to be fight here?"
eyes, sahl" called both men in
chorus.
"When?"
The query puzzled them for a minute.
Then the older one shutup his razor, put
it in his pocket and replied:
"Kurnel, dar's sunthLn wrong wid de
weather. Ize bin calm him liar an
he's bin calm me thief for moan two
hours, but ne doan' seem to git mad
about it. Did you notice anythin' out o.
kilter wild de thermbometer dis NAV.
in'9n
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"A writer in medical paper says
that in experience in Colorado and Utah
he never saw an Indian with cold. lie
concludes that it is our hot rooms ttat
give us colds.
Sweet things are generally sticky
That is the reason 60 many men get
stuck" on pretty girls.
= Cheek is the tight rope from which
crafty men often cross the chasm of isno.
rance to succens.
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dozen, because there is greater possibil-
ity for their expansion and growth.
Don't wait for the establishment of big
enterprises with heavy capital, but start
little ones in q modest way, and then let
them grow, as the majority of them
surely will,
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-07-21
TEAgHE{Rg'GoLu uMN.
j.. a: e,L1NKsGAtEs Ep1ron..
an OLD LETTER OF DIR. L1EBER's.

Mr.. Ep1roR: Our eye has recently
fallen upon an extract from q copy OF
kseath earolin;an" published in 1858.
fhis exlfact Il 8 coihmdnication on ccm-
mon schools, which was written by DR..
Lieber under che non. de plume Of Free.
dom. We ask you toErepublish this let
ter in your educational column, believ-
ing it will interest all of your readers
who afe interested in the common school
education Of our people. ". s. NJ.
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no School Commissioner at all than a
poor one. This place ought TO be one of
the brightest and most honorable
appointments, worthy of the acceptance
of the most gifted and efficient man the
State can command.
FREEDOM.
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= News comes from Georgia to the
effect that map in thai State is living
pleasantly" with his eighth wife. This
shows the value Of trying again # at firat
you don't succeed.
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"A good word is an easy obligation,
but not to speak ill requires only our
silence, which costs us nothing
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- Passengers on the street cars of
New York pay out 100000 per day in
fares.